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Posted on 10/14/2018 6:16:58 PM PDT by Theo
Mark Zuckerberg must need money because he just robbed a triple-amputee Iraq War vet blind.
Brian Kolfage joined the Air Force just before 3000 Americans were killed in the September 11, 2001 terror attacks that also destroyed the Twin Towers in New York City. He wanted to serve. He wanted to keep what had happened to thousands of his fellow Americans from happening again. It was his duty, he believed.
During Brian's second tour in the Middle East, he volunteered for a dangerous mission in Iraq.
On September 11th, 2004, exactly 3 years to the day since the 9/11/01 attacks, a 107 mm rocket landed feet from Airman Kolfage. Instantly, he lost both of his legs just below the hip and his right hand.
Kolfage wasn't expected to survive, let alone walk again, but he did.
After almost a year recovering at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Kolfage walked out of the facility.
Airman Kolfage continued overcoming the odds by going back to work for the Air Force as a base security manager. He also served on Congresswoman Gabrielle Gifford’s Veterans Advisory Committee. Brian went on to enroll at the University of Arizona’s School of Architecture. He learned to draw with his left hand as his dominant right was gone. Kolfage graduated from university and was also awarded the prestigious Pat Tillman Scholar award.
In 2014 Brian was bestowed the George C. Lang Award for Courage, for his fearlessness and also his selfless actions taking care of other wounded veterans.
Today, Brian makes trips to Walter Reed Medical Center and travels the country motivating veterans & others.
In the midst of all this, Senior Airman Kolfage got married & has two wonderful kids.
Even with all of that, Kolfage wasn't done. He became interested in news publishing and began managing pages on Facebook for news websites. He also co-founded a coffee company, Military Grade Coffee, which donates 10% of all profits back to veteran organizations.
You might not have known it, but Airman Kolfage ran the Right Wing News Facebook page and had been involved with the brand for several years among starting others. That is, until a few days ago when Facebook decided they didn't agree with Brian's conservative views. The page had 3.6 million fans, and Brian was a major factor behind its new growth and revitalization.
Over the years, Kolfage invested $315,000 to grow brands on Facebook. Facebook requested admins of pages to invest tons of money to grow and reach larger audiences for the brands he managed. Zuckerberg had no problem taking Brian's money. But now Zuckerberg & Facebook decided they couldn't allow the popular conservative page to get in the way of the 2018 mid term elections after it became a pivotal part of President Trumps 2016 upset to Hillary Clinton. Facebook headed up by Zuckerberg used a well planned opportunity to take out actual bad pages and lumped in Airman Kolfage's conservative network.
They robbed him blind, they did him dirty. They took $315,000 from his company rolled it up and laughed at his sacrifice. This was purely political, they attacked his personally. But Facebook made one fatal flaw, they underestimated the power of a triple amputee veteran. The underestimated the huge PR mess they are about to be slapped with when trump has Airman Kolfage in his oval office in front of the media, they underestimated the will power of veteran who lost so much.
Airman Kolfage wrote that because of Facebook's actions:
"My income as a father and husband is threatened.
This isn’t the right to free speech I gave my legs and arm to defend. Three limbs wasn’t enough for some … now my livelihood is gone with it.
It is true: I have been managing the Right Wing News Facebook page, and have been involved with the brand for many years.
And just today, Facebook took down our Facebook page, cutting off all contact we had with the millions of people who signed up to follow us, the millions of people who liked what we were sharing online.
I took over managing the page when John Hawkins decided to step aside to pursue other endeavors. John and I have a great relationship and I was honored to have the torch passed down to me. We had a coveted, verified blue check mark 3.5 Million fans, and I invested over $300,000 in ads at Facebook’s own request, nearly begging us to spend spend spend just to reach our fans … whom they kept making more difficult to reach with every passing year.
Never once did Facebook come to us to say there was any issue with Right Wing News or our other pages. Never. But they sure loved taking our money.
We did run multiple Facebook pages; Facebook allows businesses to have more than one page, and we did own them and had them for years. We were not “spamming,” we were not using fake accounts, we were not doing anything “wrong” … except we supported President Trump, and apparently that’s not allowed.
Facebook also deleted my other business page. I own a coffee company called Military Grade Coffee company. We don’t post politics, we sell coffee and support veteran charities. Facebook is maliciously attacking my way of life because of my beliefs, and they don’t care.
What Facebook has done is illegal. It’s a malicious coordinated attacked on everything I fought for and everything generations of Americans fought for. And this is exactly why a Facebook Engineer making 6 figures a year walked out and quit his job today, over the assault on conservative beliefs within his former company.
The New York Times even stated that Facebook made this calculated move to silence thousands of voices (and millions of forwarded messages) because of the upcoming midterm elections."
I've known Brian for years and had the pleasure of working with him on several projects. As the editor of Right Wing News, I saw how hard he worked to manage the Facebook page, and to ensure it grew in popularity. He is a tireless worker, and extremely proud of what he has accomplished for others on social media. And now Zuckerberg & his company, Facebook, have robbed him of it & his investments. I mean, they even took down his coffee company page. That's some serious hatred for the man right there. Facebook is literally stripping him of his means to provide for his family. Didn't he give enough for his country, not to mention, to Facebook? He overcame odds most in this world will never experience, only to be ripped off by Zuckerberg????
That's a GD shame.
DON'T STOP SHARING THIS UNTIL BRIAN GETS JUSTICE!
Follow Brian on his personal verified page for updates on what happens next.
Brian Kolfage alive day from Brian on Vimeo.
Should be possible to meld a bullseye out of 666.
Theologically that's how it is already.
RICO. Send SUCKERBERG to prison.
Never heard of MeWe. If they get more popular, I wouldn’t be surprised if fascistbook or screwgle takes them out.
MySpace has numerous issues, and it’s tailored more for sharing music than actual social networking. Oh, and internet ranking wise, MySpace is ranked somewhere down below 4100.
Classmates.com you don’t get the same reach as fascistbook does. So for a company or a political candidate to get their message out it doesn’t make sense to use them.
#3. We Jews have a word for this type of “traitor”, be it against fellow Jews like George Soros did in Hungary during the Holocaust, or against fellow American patriots.
IT IS KAPO (traitor)! I would love to see people picketing his buildings and homes with just that word in huge letters.
Time to remind America what a KAPO really is, be it Soros, Zuckerberg, or Obama.
MeWe and other sites like Minds are fine alternatives. Unfortunately, their membership is infinitesimal compared to Facebook and Twitter. There are a lot of Conservatives that are on those platforms (because they too spend way too much of their time sharing cat videos with their friends and families). Until the alternative sites have gained enough mass, they are not really alternatives. Also, some other alternative sites have been effectively demonetized because merchant services and banks have closed their accounts because they are Conservative (and the banks are definitely not!)
Thank you for posting this Theo!
This is outrageous!
Sorry there are so many obnoxious uneducated Freepers determined to distract from the thread.
Obviously they are unaware that until Trump became the GOP candidate, censorship on Facebook as well as other social media was minimal, so it made sense to start businesses on FB platform because of its reach.
I think the Vet needs to contact his Senator, Congressman, and President Trump as well as Fox News prime-time lineup Lou Dobbs, Carlson Tucker, Sean Hannity, and Laura Ingraham.
I will endeavor to do the same (even my Senator Tammy Duck worth D,a Vet, and a double amputee, might lend a hand.
Some pretty cool things on Amazon RE: his Military Grade Coffee.
Would make some great Christmas gifts.
Can’t stand facistbook but this is a case of putting all your eggs in one basket and having blinders on. He should have saved up and gotten a website and used Paypal and/or Stripe.
I’ve been accepting money on the web for 20 years.
It’s been news that the tech companies hate conservatives for quite a while now. Why deal with strictly one for your livelihood?
Still a shitty deal considering.
Bump!!!
This is like burning someone’s address book of clients. What kind of bull sht is this? No way he should get away with it.
What if someone hosted your address book of clients and contacts and all of a sudden burned it all down to the ground?
This is horse sht, there is not if or buts about it.
You do realize that you are trying to limit free discussion about a company that limits free discussion, don’t you?
Do you even listen to yourself?
Here it is.
From Facebook's IPO Prospectus dated May 3, 2012 (emphasis mine):
Our mission is to make the world more open and connected.People use Facebook to stay connected with their friends and family, to discover what is going on in the world around them, and to share and express what matters to them to the people they care about.
Developers can use the Facebook Platform to build applications (apps) and websites that integrate with Facebook to reach our global network of users and to build products that are more personalized, social, and engaging.
Advertisers can engage with more than 900 million monthly active users (MAUs) on Facebook or subsets of our users based on information they have chosen to share with us such as their age, location, gender, or interests. We offer advertisers a unique combination of reach, relevance, social context, and engagement to enhance the value of their ads.
We believe that we are at the forefront of enabling faster, easier, and richer communication between people and that Facebook has become an integral part of many of our users’ daily lives. We have experienced rapid growth in the number of users and their engagement.
[snip -- the following emphasis is Facebook's from the prospectus]
How We Create Value for Users
Our top priority is to build useful and engaging products that enable you to:
- Connect with Your Friends. With more than 900 million MAUs worldwide, our users are increasingly able to find and stay connected with their friends, family, and colleagues on Facebook.
- Discover and Learn. We believe that users come to Facebook to discover and learn more about what is going on in the world around them, particularly in the lives of their friends and family and with public figures and organizations that interest them.
- Express Yourself. We enable our users to share and publish their opinions, ideas, photos, and activities to audiences ranging from their closest friends to our 900 million users, giving every user a voice within the Facebook community.
- Control What You Share. Through Facebook’s privacy and sharing settings, our users can control what they share and with whom they share it.
- Experience Facebook Across the Web. Through apps and websites built by developers using the Facebook Platform, our users can interact with their Facebook friends while playing games, listening to music, watching movies, reading news, and engaging in other activities.
- Stay Connected with Your Friends on Mobile Devices. Through the combination of our mobile sites, smartphone apps, and feature phone products, users can bring Facebook with them on mobile devices wherever they go.
Foundations of the Social Web
We believe that the web, including the mobile web, is evolving to become more social and personalized. This evolution is creating more rewarding experiences that are centered on people, their connections, and their interests. We believe that the following elements form the foundation of the social web:
- Authentic Identity. We believe that using your real name, connecting to your real friends, and sharing your genuine interests online create more engaging and meaningful experiences. Representing yourself with your authentic identity online encourages you to behave with the same norms that foster trust and respect in your daily life offline. Authentic identity is core to the Facebook experience, and we believe that it is central to the future of the web. Our terms of service require you to use your real name and we encourage you to be your true self online, enabling us and Platform developers to provide you with more personalized experiences.
- Social Graph. The Social Graph represents the connections between people and their friends and interests. Every person or entity is represented by a point within the graph, and the affiliations between people and their friends and interests form billions of connections between the points. Our mapping of the Social Graph enables Facebook and Platform developers to build more engaging user experiences that are based on these connections.
- Social Distribution. Over time, people are consuming and creating more kinds of information at a faster pace across a broader range of devices. The growing volume of information makes it challenging to find meaningful and trusted content and to effectively make your voice heard. Facebook organizes and prioritizes content and serves as a powerful social distribution tool delivering to users what we believe they will find most compelling based on their friends and interests.
That is what Zuckerberg sold to investors when he went public with Facebook. Is that what is happening now? Doesn't the prospectus describe "a public forum where all viewpoints are equally tolerated?"
I agree with the thought that Facebook feigned promoting an open sharing of ideas in order to stifle the growth of competing platforms. Now that are the dominant player, they are reneging on the open environment they promised to investors.
-PJ
Excellent graphic.
I would sooner pass through a needle’s eye than have a Facebook page.
Zuckerberg is scum, and I hope he loses everything and winds up cleaning toilets.
“ZuckYou, and his type, are very evil.”
F*uckerberg has his wealthy “buddies” (i.e. Bloomberg, Steyer, and Soros just to name the more “prominent” big bucks Capos) using their money to subvert our Republic. They are all worthless scum. We should take steps immediately to prevent their use of their wealth to undermine our Republic.
“We Jews have a word for this type of “traitor”, be it against fellow Jews like George Soros did in Hungary during the Holocaust, or against fellow American patriots.
IT IS KAPO (traitor)! I would love to see people picketing his buildings and homes with just that word in huge letters.”
Thank you for posting your comment. (See #77) I completely agree with your sentiments. The good, decent Jews in this country should stand up and be counted against these $hit people! It always leaves me wondering why they are so eager to use their money to support the kind of government that lead to the Holocaust.
Ping
Once again... He needs to set up his own server like the FR does. Remove all third parties...
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